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Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-04-20

There is n LITTLE grocery up Grand River
avenue and the proprietor employs boy and
a pail Of paint and a brush. and the following
illustrated incident happens about once All
hour all day long:
Proprietor-W illiam, have YOU given the
telegraph pole hitchimg post and front door
o fresh coat Of paint
Boy-Just finished, sir.
"Iery well, William. All, There is q
misguided man slanting up against the tele-
graph pole as he talks Go out 10 him, VIII
liam"
Boy to misguided manl-Say, your coat is
al paint.
Misguided-Whet! Paint! Why, this in
fernal pole has covered me all over!
AYES. sir.
ing it, what shall | dof'
"Co,., - the store, SIR. We have the
only soap w. ed to remove paint without
injury tn tie gcnds-tiftaen cents a cake. -
Detroit Free Press.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-04-20
GoN't AocN sogn':,h, might: is the 1s

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Frank IL. Coblentz, corner Market and
High streets.
The cause OF Chief Justice Carriers
death was cancer of the stomach.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-04-20

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Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-04-20
4 A DRAMATIC EVENT.
HENRY WARD BEEChER'S CHILLY
RECEPTION AT RICHMOND. VA.

Incident oT His Lecture After the War
The Ladies CoidIy Curious aud the
Men C".u. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to
the Echo.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-04-20

The Importance Of rurifyn. the blood can-
not he o'ereS;imated, for without pure
blood you cannot enjoy good health.
At this season nearly every one needs
good medicine Ia purify. vitalize, and enrich
the blood. aud Hood'S Sar>lparilla is worthy
Your confidence. II is Peculiar in that if
strengthens and hnI!dS up The :; stem. creates
an arIStiie. and tones the digestion, while
efddieaieS disease. Give II a trial.
Heels Sar>aparilla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by Z. 1. Hood 4 Co., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-04-20
RAILROAD TIME CARD.
Cleveland. Columbia, Cincinnati and
Indianapolis Railway.

No. II hxs through sle.pers 10 New York and
Boston without change
No. II the famous limited express, com
posed entirely Of sleepers, east Of Cleveland.
Through sleepers from Springfield. Makes
New York In 8H hours and Boston in 24L
hourS.
No. q has free Reclining Chair car to st.
g. Il. KNIGHT,
3. r. Ticket and Ocean Steamship Agent.
II. u. MARTIN. Arcade Depot.
Q. p. A. Springfield. o.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-01-12
A Machine for Melting Snow.

The London Times directs attention to
system of snow melting devised by Mr..
F. Lyon, of London. When it is con-
sidered that fall of snow six inches
deep over one mile of road sixty feet
wide amounts to 1866 cubic yards, the
impossibility of removing it promptly by
means of horses and carts is at once ap-
parent. The principle of Mr.. Lyons in.
vcntion is that the snow can be dealt
with iu the roads on which it falls when
it is in light and tleecy condition, and
therefore easily melted. The apparatus
consists of o wrought iron tube about
thirty-f five feet long, having furnace at
one end. and short length of vertical
pipe for a ch mney at the other. The
tube is made in lengths of six feet, and
each length is tarered so that they all fit
into each other, and are closely packed
for transport on wheels. When fall OF
snow occurs the apparatus is to be laid
along the cutters of the roads to LIE
cleaned, the width occupied being about
four feet. A fire is then to be lighted
in the furnace, the heat from VIII ch will
pass along the horizontal tube, which has
q fatty archcd top. The snow is then
to be shoveled on to the heated tube,
which will melt It, the resulting water
flowing away to the nearest gully.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-01-12
A Blow from a Tigers Paw.

man-eater, which for six months had
been the terror of the neighborhood. had
been traced down, and was seen to creep
into ravine. The beaters were at once
ordered of. as they could be of NO ser.
vice and might be charged by the tiger,
which had already been rendered furious
by q wound. Unfo! tunately these men
are in the habit of half Intoxicating
tn mselves with opium before d living
the tiger from his efugc. and one OF
them who had taken too large dose re-
fused to esrape, and challenged the
tiger, drawing his sword and waving 1t
defantly. In a moment the animal
sprang upon him, dashed him to the
ground with blow of his paw and
turn"d to bav. After series of desper'
ate charges he was killed. The hunters
then went to the assistance of the
wounded man, but found that he was
past all aid; the lower parc of his face,
Including both avs, having been carried
away as if by cannon ball. The ter
rife effect OF the single blow indicates
the power of the limb that struck it.
Had the blow taken effect few inches
higher the whole OF the head would ha
been carried away. BY similar bow a
tiger his been known to crush the skull
Of an OK so completely that VIII n
handled the broken bones felt as II they
we're loose in bag--Good Words.
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"A Gone Sucker"

In certain city in onnecticut there
lived a very small boy with liberal
share of small ''uliginal sins" It
CHANGED that one day lie was playing in
front OF the house and overheard some
street gamins using sang expressions
profuseIy. He ran oh:s mother crying,
Mamma, mamma. ~wha 3 q gone
sucker 2" Now mamma did not in the
least know. but as her son had been
disobeying her that morning., she took
advantage of the opportu ity to point q
good moral. "A 60 sucker, my SON q
Why, it meant nauglty little boy who
doesn't mil i his mo,her.' That night,
as Johnnie was saying his p ayers, the
full measure of his Ii seemed to occur to
him with awful sig itica ce, and stop
pi short in the usual petition, he cried
out in the abandonment of his rerorse,
"Ch, Lerd, I'm gone sucker 9"-
Earper's Aayasins. s.
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81 Need Thee Every Hoar.r

"Preachers have cdd experiences OF
which they say very little said q Chi
cago minister recently. when I insti-;
tuted my Sunday evening meetings I at
tributed the large audiences to interest
in religious services. One night as l an,
Hour distinctly saw young lady in
one of the front seats nudge q young gen.
tleman at her side. Three seats back I.
saw young gentleman nudge young.
lady, and We seats back | saw another
gentleman nudge young lady. The set
me- to thinking, and the next Sunday
night gave out the hymn with my eyes
wide oEen, and as uttered the words.
i Need Thee Every Hour saw several
people nudge several other people. and
nv notions of the zeal OF these ladies
and gentleman changed They came to-
church to be in each others company
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
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Some Big Salaries.

4 Curiosity, writes q New York CORE
spondent to the ( leyeland Le0det, led
me to make note of the salaries paid by
the railroad and telegraph companies
The New York Central Railroad pays
Chauncey N. Depew, it is sa;d, $40, 900,
year; the Erie paid 5r. Jewett q like
amount and presumably tie present IN
cumbent is satisatd wi, b no less. The
revenue which men like Jay Gould, and
Cyrus lieid and ltussell Sage derive
from the position Of directors Of many
corporations, should be better than 81
munifcent salary Each company pays
its directors SIS for attendance at meet
ings; this alone to man with as many
irons in the fre--and on the. ground as
has Mr.. Gould, amounts in year to q
princely srm After the railroad Presi-
dents, perhaps the best paid class Of men
are the Presidents of the large insurance
companies. The PRESIDENT of the Equi-
table ife and the New York Life each
receive $;G,l 90 Fer year. The poorest
paid men are On the daily papers, the larg-s
est salary in New ork city of the class.
mentioned being that paid to Mr.. Z
David M. Stone, editor of the journal Or
Commerce, which is 81, 90, year. The;
ministers of the gospel and the judges
rank between the corporate o,ticers and
the journalists. Mr.. Beecher. $50, 000ls
year; Dir. Talmage, $l2. or $4,000,
for it has been several times changed.
However, it must not be thought that
the salary is the only con Iteration
which the minister receiv,s, for I have,
heard it reckored that Mr. Bescher's re-
ceipts from marriage fees ha:e averaged
$4,000 per. year; Ar. Taimagc's half as
much. They are both volum nous
writers and fluent lectu ers and should
not be in want The judges Of the
courts in New lo'k, the supreme Court,
receive $500 per year, 20 v hich in the
county of New York Is added $4,000
per year, making judge of that court
in New York city the re ipient Of
$17,5OO for each year of his judicial
lahors ... ..r - 10y 80
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-01-12
A Story of the Princess Of Wales.

A pretty story is told about the Prin'
cess of Wales. The scene OF it was the
Mansion House, the occasion ball
given some years ago, and to which.
among other "invites,' was provincial
Mayor, who had the honor of being in.
troduced to the pretty Princess. The
tale goes, and the truth of it is vouched
for. that upon his worship asking, against
all rules of etiquette, the Princess to
grant him a dance, she repliei with q
,uch of delicate humor: II do not
know whether YOU will not be rather
afraid; some of my children are only
just recovering from the measles. and
v might take thin" The wearer oi
the civic chain, however, was e .ual tt
the occasion, for bowing low, he renliea
I should be delighted to take anything
from so charming a source"
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Tragic Use of a Telephone.

If VIC are to believe story told by the
Belgian correspondent of the bigaro, the
telephone has recently been put upon
novel duty in BRUSSELS under circum-
stances of an extremely tragic character.
A young lady Of that city mistook, it ap-
pears, the civilitics OF a young man who
visited at her parents house for attentions
of a m ,ye serious nature. To her great
surprise and modification, however, she
learned some little time ago that he was
engaged to enc of her friends. Shortly
after she made the discovery the young
man received a summons to place himself
in telephone rapport with friend who
had something to say to him. The friend
turned ont to be the young lady who loved
him not wisely but, as the sequel shows,
too well. Without wasting tine on pre-
liminarics, she asked him point-bIank if it
was true that he was going to IN 'rry Mad
cmoiscllc --! He replied that it
was quite true. "Then good bye for
ever hwerc the next words which reached
his care, aud they were immedi tely fol-
lowed by the report of tirearm, The
poor girl had lodged revolver bullet in
her heart. She had thus. with the aid
of the telephone. made the man for whom
she had sacrificed herself as list at her
suicide, while putting it absolutely out
Of his powcr 10 do anything to prevent it.
s.. Jameys Gazette.
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Punishments Under Early Laws.

Laws were established in Massachu.
setts earlier than 1876, for at the first
meeting of the court of assistants, at
Charlestown, August %, 1880, (before
Boston was founded), they established
"rules of proceeding in all civil actions
and instituted subordinate powers for
Furnishing offenders" Curiously enough,
the first law proposed was 'for regulat-
ing the price of wages for workmen, un-
der penalty to him that gave, as well as
to him who received, more than the
limited price," which was two shillings
per day for carpenters, bricklayers, saw
yers and thatchers. Other laws were
also adopted, furnishing idleness, en-.
couraging industry and requiring mill
tary exercise of every man. Neverthe-
less, the Subordinate powers" above
mentioned-namely, the. judges-had
recourse to the treason and understand
ing which God had given them. In
furnishing offenses they professed to be
governed by the judicial laws of Moses" !"
and they actually, as in Connecticut,
made the s'blue laws" To illustrate
this state of things may be mentioned
the following cases, taken from the pnb-
lie records, where many are to be found
of similar character: s.mE.'
John Wedgewood, for being in the
company of drunkards, to be set in the
stocks.
Daniel Clarke, found to be an immod-
crate drinker, was fined 40s. Moderate
drinking was The custom.
Sergt. Perkins ordered to carry 40
turfs to the fort for being drunk.
Capt. Stone, for abusing Mr. Ludlow,
calling him 'tjustass," is fined e100 and
prohibited coming within the patent
without the Governors leave, upon pain
of death. VII,
Thomas Petit, for suspicion of SLAM
der, idleness and stubbornness, is CEN
sured to be severely whipped, aud to be
kept in hold.
Robert Shorthorne, for swearing by
the blood of God, was sentenced to have
his tongue put into cleft stick, and to
stand SO for the space of half an hour.
An original punish hment.
But one of the most remarkable snd
severe punishments was that of Edward
Palmer, who, "for his extortion in tax.
ing e2 13s. I'D. for the woodwork OF
Boston stocks, is fined e5 and ordered
to be set one hour in the stocks,' which
he had made. .
There were various other rulings,
coming un der the same category of blue
laws, no doubt, which we're enforced,
some of them probably only once, on the
occasion for which they were made.
Stealing from the Indians was pun
ished in various ways. In one instance
recorded, Josias Plaistowe, for stealing
four baskets of corn from the Indians,
was required to return eight baskets,
fined e5, aud thereafter to be called
Josias, and not Mr., as formerly.-Bo
ton kerakd. -
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ARTIST AND BURGLAR.

Owing to the difficulties surrounding
the >tudy of burglars few people may be
6nsidered competent to write upon the
subject. The barglar is a modest, retir-
ing beast. whose habits ara not familiar
to the general public. He is nocturnal
and generally very Icticcnt when the
eyes OF the world arc upon him, and those
persons who have survived a midnight
visit from him have in most cases been
incapable of conscientious, scientific
scrutiny of his manuerisms and mode of
action.
The real dramatic quality of an inter
view with large, live, rampant burglar
has been heretofore unapprcciatcd and
the whole sub Get is involved in deep,
seal-brown obscurity. may be, there.
fore, excused when I say that had btea
total disbcliever in the existence of
this Great ire, and was more or less in
clincd to think the whole thing q SUM-
myth of the old Greek mythology
handed down from our ancestors.
/ awoke one nj hit an saw short.
thick set man with an old-go'd beard
standing at my ebony drcssiny-case lie
was so intent in his scrutiny OF the con-
tents of my jewel casket that he did not
OBJ. erve that was awake and regarding
him with great curiosity.
I had big seven shooter in my over
coat pocket, but that Was hanging on a
chair beyond my reach. I concluded,
with that quick ment Il action for which
my friends admit me famous, that 1
would preserve the peace and use mild
measures, as I noticed he had pistol
himsel.
After had studied his physiognomy a
while I coughed a slight apologetic
cough to draw his attention to the fact
that was noticing him. lie started
slightly and pointing his pistol in a cur.
sorry manner in my direction, said: "Ah! I!
good evening. You will pardon me for
disturbing you. l assure you it was
quite accidental. Nothing, sir, was
further from my thoughts" who are
yoaf' I inquired. for began to realize
his painful situation.
HI struck n match on the rosewood
bedsteud and lighted the gus. Then he
handed me his card very POLITELY pnd
with the grace OF Duke. I took it, and
sitting up in bed, read as follows:
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T. MAURICE FLOAT,
PROFESSIONAL BURGLAR.
Office Hours from l. to3A NJ,
Sun lays Excepted.
Sun lays Excepted.

"Oh,' said I, ''you'rc burglar, ch;
How d you gel inf" 'Just opened the
front door with key and walked in.
You don't suppose was fired in sky
rocket, do you! People seem to have
such strange ideas. Still, us there are
some twenty ways to enter your house
I'll overlook your ignoran'e. Worst
guarded house ever saw" he went on,
''but it's large; affords scope to mind
like mine, which delights in breadth aud
space. May I trouble you to tell me
where our watch is!"
/ told him and he placed it in his
pocket W tn defcrential bow.
"You don't seem to have much plum
der for me-" lie resumed. "lIain't you
any bonds" l told him that was just
out o!.bonds and that the house had been
burg ariGel the week beforc. "Ahp
said he. II thought so, and poor job
they made of it, too! Incvcr saw a
more bungling piece of amateur work.
Some m seem to have no idea of finish
and delicate technique. They lack en-
tlusiasm, sir. Where did you hint hat
your diamond studs were, or didn't you
say2 Thank you, don't disturb yourself.
I'll get them" And he opened the
bureau drawer and took them.
I felt bad about his taking the studs
and watch because l noticed that he al
ready possessed those necessary articles.
81 meant to ask you, but l had forgotten
it il the press of business" he resumed.
"Havc YOU dos2" I told him that the
dog was in the cellar. lie smiled, and
>added: I'm glad of that, as am not
fond of dogs and generally avoid them. !"
"lou> will pardon my curiosity" I
said, after Il pause, during VIII ch he put
the alarm clock into his ovcrcpat pocket; :;
''b as I never had an opportunity be-
fore of talking to q real burglar, I'd like
to ask how burglary pays"
"Well, he replied with sigh, "lhis
has been hard winter for burglars, but
things are 10 king up. eople are be-
ginning to get hristmas presents in,
but Wedding night is the racket for
me- Excuse my slang, please. It's q
hard life ho,gh-you've no idea the
trouble people make for US sometimes,
and it takes the fine point of the sensl-
bilit.es of most natures. But. thank
goodness, I'm cot lost to all feelings OF
humanity. l don't steal from babies in
the cradle"
"What were YOU" inquired, "before
you became q b rglar" :,
Il was policeman, he answered,
hpughtily.
Il don often strike house as poor as
this" h. went on. "Was that silver
watch the only one you had2 Why don't
you wear gold onea And, by the way,
have you such thing as a gold lead pen,
cil2 I've wanted one for long while and
never could seem to come across it..
told him had nothin6 but stylographic
pen 1t was in my vest pocket.
He TOOK it. He also took a bottle o'
dyspepsia medicine and INV tooth brush
and slowed them away. Iasked him il
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Persian Superstiti0ns.

There are many and curious supersti-
tions in Persia. Without meaning to
exhaust the subject will give you some
of the more peculiar ones. The "baade
khadem" which is approximately rem.
dcred in English by the term of evil eye.
though literally it would be translated
"eyiI STEP" plays the largest part in this
line. The evil eye is believed in by every
body in Persia, the highest as we'll as the
lowest. A baby is healthy and pretty.
A friend of the mother admires the little
one in glowing terms. That would be
"baade khadem'-or evil omen-and
would be taken as diabolical design to
iniure the child if the Phrase .Eenshal-
lah' (may it please Cod were not added
to every eulogium. An old woman looks
at the child from the right-hand side
evil eve again. The child stumbles early
in the morning-evil eye. The father,
by accident, speaks first to the baby at
sunrise-evil eye. A girl, pretty, we'll
hammered, healthy, with good dowry,
is welded to a man. The first business
undertaking of the young benedict turns
out disastrously-evil eye! Nothing
could induce that man to keep his young
wife. She is ''baade khadem" to him,
and she's got to go, willy nilly. AS the
divorce law is such that it virtually lies
with the husband alone to keep or send
away uis wife. and as the ceremony it
self is very simple, and requires neither
time nor money, he soon gets rid of her.
Nobody blames him. ''She was 'baade
khadem' to him." everybody says in ex-
PLANTATION, and that's enough.
The Shah has appointed a very able
and deserving man to an important posi-
ton. for which his previous experience
aud his capacity eminently qualify him.
On the same day the Shah happens to
overfeed himself with lamb and raw Gu
cumbers, and has an attack Of collie. The
new appontee is blamed He is "baade
khadem," and incontinently gets the
sack. Every thing is judged in this way:
If a man has made fool OF himself and
run to too great expense in entertaining
a guest. for instance. the blame IS put on
one of the ladies of his andaroun, on his
head servant, or somebody else, and that
one is made to suffer. As,rology tmoon-
adshim), the horoscope (talehJ. the rosay
(tesbini used as an oracle, and the Koran,
the poets, especially Saadi and Hanz,
used in the same way play also most i'm
portant role in the life of the modern
Persian. In all doubtful cases, called
technically "istekharet," recoqrse is had
to one or the other or to all of them. A
man is in doubt whether to purchase
horse he desires. Dealer and customer
resort to the nearest house of mollah
aud the Koran is opened at raudom. If
the eye happens to alight on such a pas
sage as "Harpy art thou, oh son OF the
faith, for Allah will bless thee, the pur-
chase IA effected. If not, not,
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Farm and Garden Notes.

Save the best potatoes in the most pro"
life hills for seed.
Don't waste food on COWS unable to
make decent return.
If YOU want the flow of milk to keep
up, always milk ciean.
If you starve your hens you will not
fatten your egg basket.
The quality of food has much to do
with the quality Of mi k.
Guinea fowls are excellent sentlnels
against hawks, cats and other "var-
mints.'
Make your BITTER 81 good as to carry
it clear out OF competition with al! sub
stitutes.
The richest mess of milk is not usual
ly the largest, nor yet is it always the
smalle t.
Don't forget that milking in n foul
stable or ward affects the flu.d and i'm
parts an in uri us taint.
There is nothing SO attractive Or orna-
mental a. a sha ely, well-kept hedge,
md it adds va ue to the farm.